Fraudulant e-mail from the boards

[galahad]

IF YOU RECEIVE ANYTHING LIKE THE BELOW JUST DELETE IT.  IT IS A FRAUD!!!!!  (And we know how to spell temporarily and believe as well.)

from     sksboards.com Member Services <support@sksboards.com>
to           galahad@sksboards.com
date       Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:57 AM
subject   sksboards.com account notification
   

Dear Customer,

This e-mail was send by sksboards.com to notify you that we have temporanly prevented access to your account.

We have reasons to beleive that your account may have been accessed by someone else. Please run attached file and Follow instructions.

[Fragger]

Eeewww ... I saw we were down this AM @ 5am ET.

[7.62 Re[)E^^Pt!oN]

Yikes....... what happened?

[bulldog136]

But, the one about sending money to Bulldog136 is still a valid email and can get you prayers to solve all of your problems so send today! 

[rbstern]

Yikes....... what happened?

Unfortunately, one of the big weaknesses of the Internet standards for email is that a sender's address is not verified and does not have to be genuine.  Therefore, they are easily forged.  Have you ever received email from yourself that you didn't send?  That's an example of sender forgery.

It goes on all day, every day, and this particular instance probably has nothing to do with sksboards.  There are hacker utilities out there that scan the web for forum software like phpBB, vBulletin and SMF (this site's forum software).  The utilities will try to harvest email addresses from sites running the software, and then construct and send bogus emails in an attempt to infect individual PCs with malware of some type.